ghsa-79xx-vf93-p7cx
Vulnerability from github
Published
2025-01-21 21:09
Modified
2025-03-06 18:16
Severity ?
6.1 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
5.1 (Medium) - CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:L/VI:L/VA:N/SC:L/SI:L/SA:N
5.1 (Medium) - CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:L/VI:L/VA:N/SC:L/SI:L/SA:N
VLAI Severity ?
Summary
Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability in generateNavigation() function in PhpSpreadsheet
Details
Summary
The researcher discovered zero-day vulnerability Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the code which translates the XLSX file into a HTML representation and displays it in the response.
Details
When generating the HTML from an xlsx file containing multiple sheets, a navigation menu is created. This menu includes the sheet names, which are not sanitized. As a result, an attacker can exploit this vulnerability to execute JavaScript code.
```php // Construct HTML $html = '';
// Only if there are more than 1 sheets
if (count($sheets) > 1) {
// Loop all sheets
$sheetId = 0;
$html .= '<ul class="navigation">' . PHP_EOL;
foreach ($sheets as $sheet) {
$html .= ' <li class="sheet' . $sheetId . '"><a href="#sheet' . $sheetId . '">' . $sheet->getTitle() . '</a></li>' . PHP_EOL;
++$sheetId;
}
$html .= '</ul>' . PHP_EOL;
}
```
PoC
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Create an XLSX file with multiple sheets :
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Generate the HTML content ```php
```
3. Enjoy
Impact
XSS can cause a variety of problems for the end user that range in severity from an annoyance to complete account compromise. Example of impacts :
- Disclosure of the user’s session cookie, allowing an attacker to hijack the user’s session and take over the account (Only if HttpOnly cookie's flag is set to false).
- Redirecting the user to some other page or site (like phishing websites)
- Modifying the content of the current page (add a fake login page that sends credentials to the attacker).
- Automatically download malicious files.
- Requests access to the victim geolocation / camera.
- ...
{ "affected": [ { "package": { "ecosystem": "Packagist", "name": "phpoffice/phpspreadsheet" }, "ranges": [ { "events": [ { "introduced": "3.0.0" }, { "fixed": "3.8.0" } ], "type": "ECOSYSTEM" } ] }, { "package": { "ecosystem": "Packagist", "name": "phpoffice/phpspreadsheet" }, "ranges": [ { "events": [ { "introduced": "0" }, { "fixed": "1.29.8" } ], "type": "ECOSYSTEM" } ] }, { "package": { "ecosystem": "Packagist", "name": "phpoffice/phpspreadsheet" }, "ranges": [ { "events": [ { "introduced": "2.0.0" }, { "fixed": "2.1.7" } ], "type": "ECOSYSTEM" } ] }, { "package": { "ecosystem": "Packagist", "name": "phpoffice/phpspreadsheet" }, "ranges": [ { "events": [ { "introduced": "2.2.0" }, { "fixed": "2.3.6" } ], "type": "ECOSYSTEM" } ] }, { "package": { "ecosystem": "Packagist", "name": "phpoffice/phpexcel" }, "ranges": [ { "events": [ { "introduced": "0" }, { "last_affected": "1.8.2" } ], "type": "ECOSYSTEM" } ] } ], "aliases": [ "CVE-2025-22131" ], "database_specific": { "cwe_ids": [ "CWE-79" ], "github_reviewed": true, "github_reviewed_at": "2025-01-21T21:09:13Z", "nvd_published_at": "2025-01-20T16:15:27Z", "severity": "MODERATE" }, "details": "### Summary\nThe researcher discovered zero-day vulnerability Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the code which translates the XLSX file into a HTML representation and displays it in the response.\n\n### Details\nWhen generating the HTML from an xlsx file containing multiple sheets, a navigation menu is created. This menu includes the sheet names, which are not sanitized. As a result, an attacker can exploit this vulnerability to execute JavaScript code.\n\n```php\n // Construct HTML\n $html = \u0027\u0027;\n\n // Only if there are more than 1 sheets\n if (count($sheets) \u003e 1) {\n // Loop all sheets\n $sheetId = 0;\n\n $html .= \u0027\u003cul class=\"navigation\"\u003e\u0027 . PHP_EOL;\n\n foreach ($sheets as $sheet) {\n $html .= \u0027 \u003cli class=\"sheet\u0027 . $sheetId . \u0027\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"#sheet\u0027 . $sheetId . \u0027\"\u003e\u0027 . $sheet-\u003egetTitle() . \u0027\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/li\u003e\u0027 . PHP_EOL;\n ++$sheetId;\n }\n\n $html .= \u0027\u003c/ul\u003e\u0027 . PHP_EOL;\n }\n```\n\n### PoC\n1. Create an XLSX file with multiple sheets : \n\n\n2. Generate the HTML content \n```php\n\u003c?php\n\trequire __DIR__ . \u0027/vendor/autoload.php\u0027;\n\n\t$inputFileName = \u0027payload.xlsx\u0027;\n\t$spreadsheet = \\PhpOffice\\PhpSpreadsheet\\IOFactory::load($inputFileName);\n\t$writer = new \\PhpOffice\\PhpSpreadsheet\\Writer\\Html($spreadsheet);\n\t$writer-\u003ewriteAllSheets();\n\techo $writer-\u003egenerateHTMLAll();\n?\u003e\n```\n3. Enjoy\n\n\n\n### Impact\n\nXSS can cause a variety of problems for the end user that range in severity from an annoyance to complete account compromise.\nExample of impacts :\n\n- Disclosure of the user\u2019s session cookie, allowing an attacker to hijack the user\u2019s session and take over the account (Only if HttpOnly cookie\u0027s flag is set to false).\n- Redirecting the user to some other page or site (like phishing websites)\n- Modifying the content of the current page (add a fake login page that sends credentials to the attacker).\n- Automatically download malicious files.\n- Requests access to the victim geolocation / camera.\n- ...", "id": "GHSA-79xx-vf93-p7cx", "modified": "2025-03-06T18:16:08Z", "published": "2025-01-21T21:09:13Z", "references": [ { "type": "WEB", "url": "https://github.com/PHPOffice/PhpSpreadsheet/security/advisories/GHSA-79xx-vf93-p7cx" }, { "type": "ADVISORY", "url": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-22131" }, { "type": "WEB", "url": "https://github.com/PHPOffice/PhpSpreadsheet/commit/4088381ccfaf241d7d42c333de0dc8c98e338743" }, { "type": "PACKAGE", "url": "https://github.com/PHPOffice/PhpSpreadsheet" } ], "schema_version": "1.4.0", "severity": [ { "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N", "type": "CVSS_V3" }, { "score": "CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:L/VI:L/VA:N/SC:L/SI:L/SA:N", "type": "CVSS_V4" } ], "summary": "Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability in generateNavigation() function in PhpSpreadsheet" }
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